History of Mathematics: A Supplement

1 An Initial Assignment I haven’t taught the history of mathematics that often, but I do rather like the course. The chief drawbacks to teaching it are that i. it is a lot more work than teaching a regular mathematics course, and ii. in American colleges at least, the students taking the course are not mathematics majors but e- cation majors— and and in the past I had found education majors to be somewhat weak and unmotivated. The last time I taught the course, however, themajorityof thestu...